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Raising children during the Great Depression (1981)
Four women recall the hardship of raising children during a period of mass unemployment. The government provided a 'baby bundle’ consisting of poor quality clothing. [read more]
‘Who’s Juanita Nielsen?’ (1981)
After her father’s death, his friend Tom Riley (Reg Lye) tells Jessica Simmonds (Liz Alexander) that he was murdered. In the pub, he explains the similarity to the disappearance of heiress Juanita Nielsen. [read more]
‘Long live human rights’ (2002)
Dissident writer Mario is interviewed in the street where pro and anti Fidel protestors gather and argue. Mario is facing an eighteen-month prison sentence for criticising the government. Some of the gathered crowd shout 'Long live Fidel’, while a man ... [read more]
Always the light (1994)
Artist Jeffrey Smart takes the audience on a whimsical visit to an industrial landscape where he set a painting featuring bicycle riders. Smart asks the film’s director where he would put the figure of Smart in the painting. Smart also ... [read more]
Kate’s ambivalence (1997)
Kate is a single mother with a five-year-old son, Liam, seeking a life partner. Peter, a fireman, invites her and her son to visit his work place. Kate acknowledges that Liam is delighted but she feels ambivalence towards Peter as ... [read more]
‘We all have lives’ (1998)
A round table discussion with the chief justice of the High Court, Sir Gerard Brennan, and justices Mary Gaudron, John Toohey, Kenneth Hayne and William Gummow in which they reveal that they, also, live in the real world with families ... [read more]
Out of the darkness (1993)
A dancer emerges from the darkness, entering the glow of the ceremonial fire. He moves deliberately, then kneeling by the fire, shakes his shoulders. He takes brushes from the fire, and scatters the embers over his back. Elders walk by ... [read more]
The two-up school (1919)
Bill (Arthur Tauchert) and his 'cobber’ Ginger Mick (Gilbert Emery) go to the illicit 'two-up’ school after several hours of drinking. The police raid the game, chasing the players all over the neighbourhood. Mick hides in a horse feed barrel, ... [read more]
This is treason (1988)
Tim Bowden presents viewers’ responses to a video clip of a song called 'Sack the Jack’, which calls for Australia to become a republic. There was both apoplexy and praise for this item when broadcast on prime time ABC ... [read more]
The police arrive (1981)
The members of the band No Fixed Address leave for their gig. During their performance the police arrive. [read more]
A very close friendship (1976)
Penny (Briony Behets) and Dee (Judy Morris) have gone to a house by the sea for a weekend alone but a succession of men passes through, including two men whose car has broken down. When they leave, Penny assumes that ... [read more]
Who gets the profits? (1948)
An elderly pensioner is another victim of inflated prices. While his ‘hands helped to build this country’, he lives in a run-down house and has to save his cigarette butts because tobacco is too expensive. In the wealthier suburbs ... [read more]
‘Work or die’ (2000)
Slave labourers were used by German industry during the Second World War. Siemens, BMW and Krupp are named. Survivors Kitia Altman and Abraham Biderman recall the horrors of being slave labourers. [read more]
‘A nation without a mind’ (1969)
Will Gardener (Mark McManus) has just picked up returning expatriate Noel Oakshot (David Turnbull) from the airport. They visit an old house where Oakshot lived, that’s now being demolished. Oakshot holds forth on the ‘awful mediocrity’ of Australia, with its ... [read more]
Uranium supply a moral obligation (1981)
The then South Australian Minister for Mines and Energy, Roger Goldsworthy, says that Australia has a moral obligation to supply energy to the world. Arthur Baillie, a barman from Radium Hill, recalls the days of the mining town’s success. [read more]
The youth conference (2007)
Fadi introduces the workshop session of the youth conference. The attendees and facilitators break into discussion groups and talk about a range of issues. [read more]
Menzies home movies (2006)
This montage of clips from the Menzies Home Movie Collection features footage from Menzies’ wartime tour in 1941, including Tobruk, Palestine, Cairo, Jerusalem, Khartoum and England during the Blitz. It ends with close-ups of the ‘Rulers of England’ including the ... [read more]
Gold tax (2005)
In Victoria in the 1850s the introduction of a gold license was extremely unpopular. Although many diggers wanted it abolished immediately, the question of the license could not be separated from more complex questions about government revenue and taxation policy. ... [read more]
‘I’m a black Australian’ (2005)
Kenny puts on a cassette tape. He moves through the radio station to the sound of the music. It is a speech by Gary Foley with music playing in the background. Kenny pauses to sing the words to the Indigenous ... [read more]
Weighing into the argument (2000)
Presenter Rachael Oakes-Ash recalls the dreaded day when she and her fellow schoolgirls were weighed. She interviews schoolgirls about their attitude to dieting. [read more]
